Ted Tetzlaff

Dale H. "Ted" Tetzlaff (3 June 1903, Los Angeles, California – 7 January 1995, Sausalito, California) was a noted Academy Award-nominated Hollywood cinematographer active in the 1930s and 1940s. He was particularly favored by the actress Carole Lombard, whom he photographed in 10 films.^[1]

After World War II service as a US Army Major he became a film director, and directed about a dozen films from 1947 to 1957, most notably the film noir classic The Window (1949).

His father was racecar driver and film stuntman Teddy Tetzlaff (1883–1929).

Selected filmography

As cinematographer

• The Masked Angel (1928)
• The Power of the Press (1928)
• The Donovan Affair (1929)
• Hurricane (1929)
• The Younger Generation (1929)
• Mexicali Rose (1929)
• Soldiers and Women (1930)
• Tol'able David (1930)
• Men in Her Life (1931)
• The Night Club Lady (1932)
• Brief Moment (1933)
• Child of Manhattan (1933)
• Transatlantic Merry-Go-Round (1934)
• Fugitive Lovers (1934)
• Rumba (1935)
• Hands Across the Table (1935)
• Paris in Spring (1935)
• The Princess Comes Across (1936)
• My Man Godfrey (1936)
• Easy Living (1937)
• Swing High, Swing Low (1937)
• True Confession (1937)
• Fools for Scandal (1938)
• Artists and Models Abroad (1938)
• Remember the Night (1940)
• The Road to Zanzibar (1941)
• I Married a Witch (1942)
• The Lady is Willing (1942)
• The Talk of the Town (1942) – Academy Award nomination for Best Cinematography
• You Were Never Lovelier (1942)
• The More the Merrier (1943)
• The Enchanted Cottage (1945)
• Notorious (1946)

As director

• World Premiere (1941)
• Riffraff (1947)
• Fighting Father Dunne (1948)
• A Dangerous Profession (1949)
• Johnny Allegro (1949)
• The Window (1949)
• The White Tower (1950)
• The Treasure of Lost Canyon (1951)
• Gambling House (1951)
• Under the Gun (1951)
• Terror on a Train (1952) (aka Time Bomb)
• Son of Sinbad (1955)
• Seven Wonders of the World (1956)
• The Young Land (1959)

References

1. Ott, Frederick W. (1972). The Films of Carole Lombard. Secaucus, New Jersey: Citadel Press. p. 26. ISBN 978-0806502786.

External links

• Ted Tetzlaff at the Internet Movie Database
• Ted Tetzlaff They Shoot Pictures